Rethinking educational leadership to transform pedagogical practice to help improve the attainment of minority ethnic pupils: The need for leadership dialogue

Management in Education

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 125-130

  Mistry, Malini ^a   Sood, Krishan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attainment; EAL; good practice; leaders; minority ethnic pupils

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960070003     PISSN: 08920206     EISSN: 17419883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0892020611401772     Document Type: Article

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